Nick Payne
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 2625
Location: Canberra, Australia1/31/18 4:58 AM |
Getting taken out by a kangaroo
You might have already seen this one, as it seems to have been making the rounds. Looks a bit ugly for the female cyclist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4QkGoOZ_AE
I've had a couple of close encounters with kangaroos while cycling, but haven't actually hit one or had one hit me. A couple of friends have sustained broken bones, though, after colliding with kangaroos and wallabies. They're very erratic and unpredictable and quite fast - the engineer at Volvo in charge of animal avoidance spent several weeks out here a couple of years back studying kangaroos, and commented that it's much harder to design an animal avoidance system for kangaroos than one for avoiding elk or reindeer.
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